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Last week, Senator Akaka introduced legislation that would update the Privacy Act of 1974 in several significant respects. The bill contains many of the principles that a CDT working group developed in 2009, such as revised definitions for key terms and stronger formal privacy leadership at federal agencies. Sen. Akaka’s “Privacy Act Modernization…

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CDT Vice President for Public Policy Jim Dempsey, who has worked closely on this issue for years, writes in Ars Technica:
ECPA’s…